Day To Day Quotes - Page 4

• America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

  Meryl Streep

  Birthday, America, People

  "Aged to perfection: Role model for beauty" by Gail O'Neill, www.cnn.com. March 09, 2003.

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• I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

  Daniel Tammet

  Wind, Giving, Feelings

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• I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

  Josh Turner

  Simple, People, Pleasure

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• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Deception

  Following the Equator ch. 59, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• Reality continues to ruin my life.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

  David A. Bednar

  Heart, Hands, Desire

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• Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

  Regina Brett

  Showing Up, Life Is, Do The Best

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• You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Giving Up, Past

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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  Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Song, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

  Markus Zusak

  Life, Inspiring, Philosophy

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.353, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

  James E. Faust

  Faithful, Ordinary, May

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• We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Struggle, People, Littles

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• How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.

  A. E. Housman

  Beautiful, Strong, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Reality, Decision, Maps

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• Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Silly, World

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.285, Penguin

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• The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Marriage, Space, Woven

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Moving, Fall

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.113, Modern Library

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• Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dream, Reality, Other Worlds

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.78, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• ...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.

  Betty Smith

  Reading, Two, Soul

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

  George Orwell

  Air, Long, Nineteen

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Night, Yesterday

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

  Robin Hobb

  Cutting, Men, Wind

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• A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Love, Children, Miscarriage

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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